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Social-justice film festival screens short parables, feature-length documentaries, and movies at the Icon Theatre to promote activism

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Chicago International Social Change Film Festival

Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once said, “The cinema is truth at 24 frames per second,” making slow-mo sports replays and time-lapse footage of sunsets nothing but cruel, cruel lies. See cinéma vérité with this Groupon.

Receiving its Chicago premiere, filmmaker Harpreet Kaur’s 2010 film explores the plague of suicides facing the farmers of Punjab and the subsequent lives of those farmers’ children. Kaur fearlessly follows the farmers’ tales from their rural village to India’s capital, where she confronts high-ranking government officials who deny the severity of the problem. By forcing those in power to reconcile policy and reality, Kaur shines a light on an ongoing tragedy.

James Cromwell stars in this thought-provoking short film about the futility of hatred. After a bomb goes off in a café in Tel Aviv, an Israeli couple and a Palestinian man find themselves in the afterlife’s waiting room. There, an enlightened clerk (Cromwell) attempts to guide them beyond their bitterly held biases with nothing less than their eternal fate at stake.

Bulgarian-born photojournalist Mimi Chakarova plumbs humanity’s capacity for evil in this feature-length 2011 documentary on the sex-trafficking industry of post-Soviet Eastern Europe. Through firsthand accounts from kidnapped victims and undercover footage and photography, a picture of physical and psychological horror snaps into obscene clarity. Though Chakarova created this exposé at great personal risk—even infiltrating a trafficking operation disguised as a prostitute—the real heroes are the brave women who dare to show their faces undisguised and tell their stories to the world.<p>